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My names MIchael and I live in Oklahoma City. My wife captured the Mantis pictured below in her flower bed which I created a habitat for after deciding to keep. Shes a Carolina female which created a ootheca by the third day of her captivity. My wife stated that she did see another Mantis later that was more slender and had a bigger head so I'm hopeful it was male and the egg sack is fertile, guess I'll find out in a couple of months. I've never known a lot about these critters, used to catch'em when I was a kid, keep them a couple days, feeding them and releasing'em back to nature. Been reading a lot of info. on web sites to learn as much as I can, fast as I can. Ordered Orin's newer book "Keeping the Praying Mantis" cause I like having printed material to reference. I found this site after she started leaving small amount of brown liquid spotting the glass of her habitat and started a search for more info. on subject which I found here. Looks to be like a very interesting/informative forum to be a part of so here I am.
My names MIchael and I live in Oklahoma City. My wife captured the Mantis pictured below in her flower bed which I created a habitat for after deciding to keep. Shes a Carolina female which created a ootheca by the third day of her captivity. My wife stated that she did see another Mantis later that was more slender and had a bigger head so I'm hopeful it was male and the egg sack is fertile, guess I'll find out in a couple of months. I've never known a lot about these critters, used to catch'em when I was a kid, keep them a couple days, feeding them and releasing'em back to nature. Been reading a lot of info. on web sites to learn as much as I can, fast as I can. Ordered Orin's newer book "Keeping the Praying Mantis" cause I like having printed material to reference. I found this site after she started leaving small amount of brown liquid spotting the glass of her habitat and started a search for more info. on subject which I found here. Looks to be like a very interesting/informative forum to be a part of so here I am.
